[Gastronomy]. [BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean-Anthelme)]. Physiologie - Lot 393

[Gastronomy]. [BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean-Anthelme)]. Physiologie du goût, ou Méditations de gastronomie transcendante. Paris, A Sautelet & Cie, 1826. 2 vols. in-8, contemporary green half calf, smooth spine, red titles and gilded borders, fleurons, frieze and fillets (some rubbing, lower jaw of t.2 split at head; stamps formerly removed and holes filled in titles; catalog card pasted to f.V of t.1). First edition of this classic work of gastronomic literature. Published a few months before the author's death, 500 copies were printed. Provenance: Le Docteur Levavasseur bookplate repeated on the titles. Old annotations on pp. 274 and 275 of vol. 1. (Vicaire, 116; Carteret, I, 146; Oberlé, n°144).